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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1893
Page
1
Uncle Jim loses faith, yet Dot finds a white baby in cot 30 during a city parade. The rescue bonds Kate, Madge, and Uncle Jim as a wealthy donor arrives by carriage. the nurse and father thank them, and the ledger funds a holiday for Madge.
In a vain gamble to host Grand Army of the Republic veterans, Uncle Jim builds a tent city promising big profits from beds. The muster night crowds fail to appear, leaving Kate Dot and their mother anxious as debts loom and hope wanes.
An anecdote from the New York Sun recalls a man waking after a spree to find a grinning monkey on the bed rail. He grips a revolver and aims, but the scene ends with him still unsettled ten days later. Then a Navy booster column and various science and home-reading notes fill the page with period commentary.
A columnist recounts horses crying and shedding tears in hardship from cold, neglect, and injury. A rider recalls a favorite horse hobbling on three legs after stepping on a nail, crying like a child until its wound was treated.
A compact note surveys how famed figures across history held superstitions. Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Marlborough reportedly feared omens. Writers and statesmen such as Johnson Swift Byron Beaconsfield Parnell Pitt and Peel are cited for peculiar habits and rituals before or during public life.
The text explains that cobras do not hear music or dance. Snakes lack external ears and sense sound via vibration and tongue nerves. The snake's alert eyes track motion and drumsticks, and a dancing cobra is an alarmed animal ready to strike, not dancing to music.
A description from Professor Tyndall shows music transmitted via a wooden rod from a piano two floors away. An audience could not hear the piano directly, but placing a violin on the rod caused the piano music to resonate in the room. Substituting guitar and harp yielded the same result as vibrations traveled through the rod to the resonant bodies and into the air.
The dialogue imagines a sentry outside a powder magazine that explodes. Patrick replies that, after reflection, he would fire an alarm signal to warn others and summon aid.
A girl tells an older man she does all she can to drive away a persistent visitor. The gentleman retorts with a sharp remark about her singing to him.
A brief comic note describes Mrs Tompkin enjoying a seaside trip this year. The punchline reveals she has not eliminated her old trouble but rather her old daughter, in a light domestic quip.
A reflective line notes the paradox of virtue, suggesting in sharp aphorism that excessive self sufficiency can lead to inaction or lack of practical effort. The comment frames a critique of overidealized goodness.
A concise saying notes that a person quick to fault others reveals two own faults. It uses a common moral parallel to warn against self-righteous judgment and to encourage personal reflection.
SumMER WEAKNESS and that tired feeling, loss of appetite and nervous prostration are driven away by Hood's Sarsaparilla, like mist before the morning sun. To realize the benefit of this great medicine, give it a trial and you will join the arm of enthusiastic admirers of Hood's Sarsaparilla.
An ad copy touts Hoop's Pa's as a compact traveler’s remedy and family medicine cabinet essential priced at 25 cents per box. It emphasizes portability and usefulness for households and travelers alike.
Postmaster General Wanamaker ordered three billion five hundred million stamps for 1893. The list shows fifteen values with design subjects and colors including one cent Columbus sighting land Antwerp blue and two cents Landing of Columbus purple maroon.
A poor young man ill with debt to a physician offers to repay by teaching flute. The doctor, busy, lets him stay and later enjoys a charity flute recital for poor children. The effort reportedly clears the debt as the musician plays to ease his gratitude.
A quote from Puck asserts that indifference in a man is the unpardonable sin, while the withheld caress from a lover carries greater value than a distant or indifferent greeting.
Ex governor Crittenden and Senator West recalled Center College Danville Ky graduates. The governor cited two remarkable former students Breckinridge and another who became a famed political figure now teaching at a deaf and dumb asylum. He noted fifteen in the class rose to prominent roles.
A Cornish vicar’s untidy church irks a zealous curate who carted a barrow of Christmas rubbish to the vicar's door. The vicar calmly asks the curate to sit on the barrow cap so the rest can be moved, turning the insult into a speedy cleanup.
A borrower asks for five dollars from Jack and waits two hours for repayment. Jack returns with the money, but the lender says he must pay interest for the wait, charging one dollar for loss of time. The exchange is reported by the New York Press.
A learned physiognomist notes that some facts read more easily than others while a listener counters by focusing on noses, prompting a brief, pointed exchange about perception.
The Pittsburgh Bulletin recalls a quip about a large hammer in a box beside a car. The humor notes the tool has two roles: to knock down fares and to help commercial travelers crack jokes.
Mrs Hawkins complains that the speech is too sharp while Mr Hawkins retorts he must make it so to get it in edgewise. The exchange hints at frustration in a domestic or public setting.
A Rochester reader reports a severe coup of catarrh that Ely's Cream Balm fully removed. Another user from Stephney, Conn. notes relief from headaches and discharge after using the product, claiming the symptoms largely vanished.
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